challenge time... if this fic can get over 50 reviews by the fifth of april i will post the next chapter, chapte 6 on the 6th... good luck please review!

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The hall that was hidden behind the hidden door took many twists and turns, but Harry and Tom had come across no doors or any other way out of the neverending hall. It seemed like forever had gone by when they finally came to a door. It was exactly like the one that had been hidden in the first room. This door opened just as easily as the last, and it wasn't even locked, which surprised Tom.

The room it lead to looked to be a plain room, four walls a ceiling, and two doors, the one they came in and the one that Harry bet they had to find a way to get through. Nothing stood out but a dark circle in the middle of the floor, illuminated by some light that seemed to come from nowhere. Not seeing anything else in the room and a quick Revelio didn't show anything when Harry casted it.

With nothing else to find they both moved towards the circle and once both of them were touching the circle the room turned pitch black with small glowing flecks floating in the air. They appeared to move towards each other growing bigger as the moved. Before long the room had been turned into a living map of space and stars. A beam of light cut through the darkness and onto a podium in front of the door they needed to go through. On the podium was a piece of parchment.

On Gaia here we stand

But who goes hand in hand

For a son isn't near

But who does everyone fear?

"This must be Professor Sinatra's room, she's the Astronomy teacher," said Harry.

"Well Gaia is the name for the Greek personification of the earth, and they use son instead of sun, and she is the mother and wife of Uranus, the name of one of the planets that is in our solar system. I think that's what it means by hand in hand, Gaia is greek but they named the planets after the Roman gods, who are seen as the same people as the Greek ones... But who does everyone one fear?" Asked Tom as he looked at the parchment.

"Pluto! He's the Roman god of the Underworld, death. It's Pluto."

The unseen light came back on and the door opened on it's own.

"You were right, on we go."

HP/FG-TW

The next room had the tallest walls, ever taller than the ones in the Great hall. There was a long table that took up most of the room, it held several objects that didn't seem to have anything to do with each other, there was a candle holder, a fork, a high heeled shoe, an , and a vase.

"What are these for?" Asked Harry as he looked over the items.

"I don't know, they're so random."

After an hour of pacing and thinking up crazy ideas, they were nowhere closer to understanding the objects than when they entered to room. Finally Harry plopped himself on the ground and lay on the floor like he was about to make a snow angel, wishing that the headache he had gotten not long after they entered to room would go away soon. Looking up he wondered why the walls were so high, they had no reason, at least that Harry could see, to be so tall. He looked up and thought about why it was so high hoping that it would take his mind off of the headache he had, and maybe help him figure out what the stuff on the table was for.

The strange light that filled each of the rooms came from no candles or torches like the hallway and the room before, but it seemed like it came from the air as Harry couldn't see where it would come from otherwise.

As Harry stared up at the ceiling he searched for cracks, or bumps in it to have something to concentrate on, as Tom got more frustrated trying to figure the reason they had been given these objects when Harry saw something. At first, he thought it was a crack, and they he saw another, and the more he found he realized that they weren't cracks but shapes. And as he looked at the shapes he wondered what they were, he soon figured out that they weren't natural, and they matched the outline of the objects that covered the table.

"I found something. There's something on the ceiling," said Harry.

"What?! The ceiling? What did you find?"

"There are weird shapes on the ceiling, they look like the stuff we were given."

"Where?" Asked Tom as he looked up towards the ceiling.

"Along the top of the ceiling, in a line in the middle."

"Oh I see. What does it mean though? We have the objects hear on the ground, and outlines of them on the ceiling, and why is the ceiling so tall? Do we have to match them up? And if we do we won't be able to, it's too high." Tom wondered out loud as he looked between the ceiling and the table.

"I know. We just learned this, the levitation charm. This must be Flitwick's room. Wingardium Leviosa."

As Harry maneuvered the shapes into the right spots with the charm, they stuck to the ceiling when they matched up to their shape, and with each item added to the ceiling a new piece was added to the table, what was turning out to be a key. As the last piece fell into place the key glowed and as the light around it dimmed, and a whole key was left in it's place.

Wasting no time Tom grabbed the key off the table, and opened the door.

HP/FG-TW

Fenrir was getting worried, it was already well after midnight. He had expected Tom and his Mate to return not long after going into the castle, but now it was almost a day later and they hadn't shown up. He had stayed in the shadow of the forest the whole day, just beyond the edge, so he wouldn't be able to miss them. He did spot an owl, one so white she stood out against the night sky, but there was no sign of his Lord or Mate.

By the time the light of the rising sun had started to poke over the edges of the mountains that surrounded the grounds, Fenrir had started to lose hope. That his Master and Mate had been captured, or that his Mate had been lying and had turned Tom in.

Once the sun had fully rose from behind the mountains, he had all but given up and was getting ready to head back into the depths of the forest. Fenrir gave one last look towards the ancient castle, when he heard someone crashing through the trees and bushes near him. Ducking behind a thick tree he looked out from behind it as he prepared to run.

HP/FG-TW

It was a lab, and it looked to be fully stocked. With a single table in the middle. Along one wall was a row of cauldrons, standard pewter, solid gold, silver, glass, crystal, ones big enough to put a person in, and some so small that they fit in the palm of your hand. On the table was another piece of parchment, with Disintegration Solution written across the top.

"This must be Severus's room... We must have to make this to get through the door, there's no keyhole so it looks like we have to make this to melt the door away."

1 cup of watery armadillo bile

1 pinch of powdered boomslang skin

8 lacewing flies

3 common beetle eyes

7 drops of belladonna extract

12 small sized whole doxy eggs

4 pieces of knotgrass cut lengthwise

1 large finely chopped valerian root

Juice of 20 sopophorous beans

6 pieces of thinly sliced mandrake root

Use one medium sized glass cauldron and one hollow silver stirring rod. Set on high heat pour in armadillo and sopophorous bean juice, bring to a boil. Add belladonna extract while boiling boil for six minutes then take off of fire. Once removed from fire and turns a milky white, add doxy eggs and boomslang skin one at a time stirring twice clockwise between each, stir eight times counterclockwise than three times clockwise, waiting one minute between each stir. Than replace on fire. After reaching a boil stir clockwise for at least ten minutes until it turns lumpy and a dull gray. Then quickly add remaining ingredients stirring for two minutes then stop for fifteen minutes and then stirring again for four more minutes, if made properly it should become smooth and turn bright pale blue.

The potion didn't take long to make at all but preparing some of the ingredients was another story. The Sopophorous Beans proved to be very hard and therefore difficult to cut, it wasn't until after a few tries, and Harry went to cut one only for it to fly into Tom's path, causing him to step on it. As he stepped on it it released a large amount of juice grabbing a new bean to replace the one Tom stepped on, Harry then crushed the rest of the beans to get the juice out of them.

Harry was good at potions, not that Snape or the other Slytherin's let him show that. With the Slytherin's sabotaging him at every chance, or Snape breathing down his neck, and making rude comments. Harry had read his potions book the most, and had wanted to ask so many questions about potions making, that it had hurt so bad when he made fun of Harry in their first class. After that, and a few other classes Harry had all but given up at trying to get a good grade in that class, or trying to learn how to make potions. But thankfully it didn't stop him from reading potions books when he could.

By the time the potion was finished Harry was getting tired. With staying up for most of the night last night, except for when he was knocked out, then all the work he and Tom had done in preparation for tonight, and then tonight was taking a toll on him. Tom threw the potion on the door, and it started to dissolve the door quickly, and only the door.

"The walls and the floor must have a spell or potion on them to make sure they don't dissolve, " said Tom as be placed the caudron back on the table.

Walking through the eaten door way, around the puddle of melted door, and potion mixture they walked into yet another room. This one had a mirror in the back of it. But between the door and the mirror was two sets of columns lining the walls, between each column stood a set of armor one on the right were black suits of armor, and on the left white. As they stepped into the room the armor stood at attention. While a fire pit in the middle of the room lit itself and smoke began to pour from it, forming words.

Pick your side

For none can hide

The battle must be won

This is no game of fun

To get to the prize

You must be wise

"Not another riddle?" Harry exclaimed.

"This is very straightforward, we have to pick a set and battle the other to get to the mirror, which no doubt holds the key to getting the stone... In chess white goes first, but this isn't chess and I am as dark as one can get, I choose Black!"

As the suits of armor battled in the middle of the floor, cutting each other apart, sending pieces of armor tumbling around the ground. Tom and Harry tried to get around the makeshift battlefield only to be held at sword or spear point when they tried, the suits backed off when the pair did, only stopping them when they tried to get around to the mirror. Finally there were just two suits of armor left, the white one had no head was also missing part of one arm, while the black one had one foot missing and the chest part caved in from a vicious hit. They swung at each other, until the black armor gave one last blow cutting the other suit of armor right down the middle before clasping in a heap itself.

Stepping around the mangled metal Harry and Tom made their way to the mirror now that they could get to it without fear of being sliced to pieces.

"This is the Mirror of Erised, I found it in an abandoned classroom just after Christmas Hols. Dumbledore told me how it works, it shows you your greatest desire. He said that men had wasted away in front of it, but from what I now know about him I don't know how much I trust what he said about it."

"He didn't lie about men wasting away, they have. Longing for what they can't have, seeing it so close and not having it drives some people mad."

"So why is it here? Dumbledore said it was leaving the school, what use would it be here?" Asked Harry as he avoided looking in the mirror.

"I'm not sure, I see myself getting the stone, but how can I get it. This is the last room, and I can't see any doors to another room so this must be the end. Why do you look, maybe you will see something that will help."

Before when Harry first looked into the mirror he had seen the family he should have had, the one he had always longed for, one that loved him and wanted him. He didn't want to look into it again, he didn't want to see what he knew he could never have. Knowing now why they died, how, and the good they wanted to achieve made him want to look into the mirror, yet he knew that they would still be gone.

Looking into the mirror Harry saw his parents just like he knew he would, but this time mixed in with the family that he didn't know, was Tom and Fenrir and others that didn't look, and yet did look familiar. Then it changed again, soon as the others faded away only himself and Tom remained. He then saw himself giving over a blood red stone, he knew was the Sorcerer's Stone, to Tom. As he saw himself give Tom the Stone he felt something in his hand. Looking down at his open hand was a red stone.

"Look," Harry said as the lifted his hand up to Tom. "It's the stone!"

HP/FG-TW

As the noise got closer Fenrir peeked from behind the tree, he could see the leaves of the plants moving but he couldn't see a person or animal that should have been making them move. Stretching his muscles out he moved to either attack or run, depending on what it was that was nearing closer to him, Nagini hot on his heels waiting for her master's return or to attack as she knew that her master's enemies were near.

"He should be near."

"But what if he left, we did take along time. He might have left when he didn't come back before dawn."

"No I don't think so. I think Fenrir is still around here somewhere. He should have waited for us to return... He has been very loyal, I doubt he would have left now of all times," said Tom.

"What if Dumbledore or Hagrid found him?" Asked Harry.

"He knows who to take care of himself, he is a match for them."

Recognizing the voices he came out from behind the tree, and walked right into something he couldn't see.

"Fenrir, there you are. We were wondering where you had gone off to," said Tom as he pulled the invisibility cloak off of himself and Harry.

"Sorry," Fenrir said as he got up from off of Harry, having fallen on top of him after running into him. Fenrir felt awful about falling on top of Harry, they weren't getting off to a good start. He had wanted to give his future Mate nothing to complain about, involving him anyway. Once he got off of Harry he pulled Harry up off the ground as well. "Did you get it my Lord?"

"Yes we did now we should go, before Dumbledore realizes it's gone," he said as Nagini curled around his waist with her head resting on his chest, Tom saw Harry's eyes widen and it looked like he was going to panic. "Calm down Harry, this is my familiar Nagini."

"Oh, Hello Nagini."

"He speaks," Nagini hissed out surprised when the small boy spoke to her.

"Yes, he does, probably because do to the connection we have. Either way he's coming with us."

"Oh, alright," she said as she settled back down and tightened in preparation to leave.

"Ready?" Asked Fenrir as he moved closer to Tom and Harry.

"Wait! Hedwig?" As Harry called out and the snow white owl that Fenrir had seen earlier flew down and onto Harry's outstretched arm.

"Good, we should go now, it's too light out for us to linger here long."

"Hold on tight, I think I should be able to side-apparate both of you, and the owl." Fenrir gripped both Harry and Tom by the arm. "Now you, don't you panic, it won't be pleasant, but you need to stay still and calm," Fenrir said to Harry, Nagini, and Hedwig, who both nodded to him while Nagini ignored him but appeared to tighten around Tom. With a loud pop they were gone.